History, Natural History & the Arts
Humble in appearance, one-room schoolhouses might be easy to overlook, but their existence hints at a broader social, cultural, and educational history.
Hundreds of one-room school houses were built across Long Island and many still survive, either adapted to new uses or restored and open for public access. [Read more…] about Historic Schoolhouses of Long Island
In March of 1918 several U.S. military units were sent to the Western Front of World War One.
The quota of 120 men from Tompkins County, NY assembled at two o’clock to receive their credentials and instructions. From the courthouse in Ithaca they marched to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station and left at 10:50 en route to Camp Upton in Yaphank on Long Island. Special cars were attached to the regular train that brought men from Buffalo and Waterloo. [Read more…] about ‘This Platoon Can Lick its Weight in Wild Cats’: Tompkins County Men in World War One
Even as Hitler and his Nazi regime ran roughshod over Germany and Europe in the 1930s, there were those in America who championed their rise. And nowhere so much as on Long Island.
Camp Siegfried in Yaphank (a community in the south part of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County) became a focal point for certain German Americans to gather and espouse the Nazi cause. [Read more…] about Nazis of Long Island: Sedition, Espionage & the Plot Against America
On January 20th, NYS Environmental Conservation Officers (ECOs) DeRose and Francis responded to a call from a complainant who reported two subjects had killed a whitetail deer at Southaven County Park in Yaphank in Suffolk County on Long Island where deer hunting is prohibited. [Read more…] about Tickets Issued for Hunting in Long Island County Park, ATVs in State Park
Here is a list of highlights and noteworthy items from the past year here in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Bureau of Fisheries. [Read more…] about DEC Fisheries 2023 Year in Review
As we celebrated another birthday for America this July 4th I was reminded of the rich history and vital role that New York played in the founding of this nation. This is no less true within the sandy shores and glacial uplands of Long Island.
Drive south on William Floyd Parkway today, through the Suffolk County communities of Yaphank, Mastic, Shirley, and Mastic Beach, and it might be hard to imagine that this area was once the site of a great struggle between a world power and the early American settlers who came to yearn for independence. [Read more…] about Long Island Revolutionary History: A Suffolk County Tour
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